Name that Ware, August 2009 @ bunnie’s blog

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Name that Ware, August 2009 @ bunnie’s blog!

This month’s ware is a user-submitted ware. This ware doesn’t quite qualify as a “production” ware but it does qualify as a very interesting ware, partially because of its vintage and its relative sophistication. I’d be surprised if anyone out there could exactly identify what this ware is, but I’m thinking someone out there can at least name the general function and origin of this ware…when I name the winner I’ll post some interesting details about the ware!


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10 Comments

  1. That is most obviously a ClusterFlux-Capacitor. I’m really quite surprised nobody got it yet!

  2. I’m guessing a rocket/aerospace component…maybe part of a guidance system?

  3. looks like some kind of old (wannabe)digital board to me… maybe some memory or processor??

  4. I see too many contradictions: the dip packaging seems early to mid 70’s while the spidery things look like late 60’s ic’s. The mounting holes suggest a stand alone device (eg hard drive or motherboard) but I can’t think of anything that small in that time period. Besides the pattern was for removable boards, not permanently fixed ones. The hand wiring suggests a prototype but it also looks like it would be in production.

    Too flimsy for military/space. Too small a bus for s100. Too big for an Apple. Actually more like ISA but not enough integration for that time.

    It almost looks like a processor- but only part of one- like an ALU. Not memory per se. Perhaps the yellow objects are the registers. But again, technology post dates that design era.

    I give up. Final answer: control circuit for an 8″ floppy drive.

  5. Looks like an early modem. There are two coax cables, that’s some kind of analog signal.

  6. That’s my mother without her top on.
    Now kiss my shiny @&()$# %#@#$# !

  7. I think its part of an electric organ (the musical instrument, not a cybernetic kidney or anything).

  8. I do hope you won’t leave us hanging forever….

    I go with the modem guess.

  9. I’m thinking (cause I have seen a few of these ) that it might be a board from an old-ish Pinball machine. Not the full blown electronic (mid video arcade era ones) but the ones right before that still had some basic sounds (the piezo speaker in the corner) and mostly timing circuits to make the lights blink during key gameplay moments. And there’s some bits and pieces there to flip the number/score counters but those are actually flipped by electromagnetic relays… anyway.. pretty sure thats what it is.

  10. I agree with Michael “I think its part of an electric organ…”

    The board has lots of caps, op-amps, inductors.

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